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Text-to-image (T2I) generation has greatly enhanced creative expression, yet achieving preference-aligned generation in a real-time and training-free manner remains challenging. Previous methods often rely on static, pre-collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yang Li , Songlin Yang , Xiaoxuan Han , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Yueming Lyu , Ziyu Xue

This paper analyzes the community safety guidelines of five text-to-image (T2I) generation platforms and audits five T2I models, focusing on prompts related to the representation of humans in areas that might lead to societal stigma. While…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Piera Riccio , Georgina Curto , Nuria Oliver

With the rapid development of AIGC technology, significant progress has been made in diffusion model-based technologies for text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V). In recent years, a few studies have introduced the strategy of Direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Lifan Jiang , Boxi Wu , Jiahui Zhang , Xiaotong Guan , Shuang Chen

Using risky text prompts, such as pornography and violent prompts, to test the safety of text-to-image (T2I) models is a critical task. However, existing risky prompt datasets are limited in three key areas: 1) limited risky categories, 2)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chenyu Zhang , Tairen Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Ruidong Chen , Wenhui Li , Anan Liu

Discrete autoregressive (AR) text-to-image (T2I) models pair a VQ tokenizer with an AR policy, and current post-training pipelines optimize only the policy while keeping the VQ decoder frozen. Recent diffusion T2I work, exemplified by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Siyong Jian , Siyuan Li , Luyuan Zhang , Zedong Wang , Xin Jin , Ying Li , Cheng Tan , Huan Wang

Text-to-image (T2I) models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited remarkable performance in generating high-quality images from text descriptions in recent years. However, text-to-image models may be tricked into generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinfeng Li , Yuchen Yang , Jiangyi Deng , Chen Yan , Yanjiao Chen , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu

Text-to-image (T2I) models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities but remain vulnerable to producing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, such as violent or explicit imagery. While recent moderation efforts have introduced soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zonglei Jing , Xiao Yang , Xiaoqian Li , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Mingchuan Zhang , Xianglong Liu

Text-to-image (T2I) generative diffusion models have demonstrated outstanding performance in synthesizing diverse, high-quality visuals from text captions. Several layout-to-image models have been developed to control the generation process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ahmad Süleyman , Göksel Biricik

Text-to-image models can generate harmful images when presented with unsafe prompts, posing significant safety and societal risks. Alignment methods aim to modify these models to ensure they generate only non-harmful images, even when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yuepeng Hu , Zhengyuan Jiang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Recent progress in video generative models has enabled the creation of high-quality videos from multimodal prompts that combine text and images. While these systems offer enhanced controllability, they also introduce new safety risks, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ruize Ma , Minghong Cai , Yilei Jiang , Jiaming Han , Yi Feng , Yingshui Tan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zhang , Bo Zheng , Xiangyu Yue

While recent advancements in generative modeling have significantly improved text-image alignment, some residual misalignment between text and image representations still remains. Some approaches address this issue by fine-tuning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jaa-Yeon Lee , Byunghee Cha , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) has made significant strides, with high-resolution text-to-image (T2I) generation becoming increasingly critical for improving users' Quality of Experience (QoE). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chongbin Yi , Yuxin Liang , Ziqi Zhou , Peng Yang

Despite their wide-spread success, Text-to-Image models (T2I) still struggle to produce images that are both aesthetically pleasing and faithful to the user's input text. We introduce DreamSync, a model-agnostic training algorithm by design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jiao Sun , Deqing Fu , Yushi Hu , Su Wang , Royi Rassin , Da-Cheng Juan , Dana Alon , Charles Herrmann , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Ranjay Krishna , Cyrus Rashtchian

In the text-to-image generation field, recent remarkable progress in Stable Diffusion makes it possible to generate rich kinds of novel photorealistic images. However, current models still face misalignment issues (e.g., problematic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Leigang Qu , Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Neural image classifiers are known to undergo severe performance degradation when exposed to inputs that are sampled from environmental conditions that differ from their training data. Given the recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jianhao Yuan , Francesco Pinto , Adam Davies , Philip Torr

With the help of conditioning mechanisms, the state-of-the-art diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in guided image generation, particularly in text-to-image synthesis. To gain a better understanding of the training process and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Shengfang Zhai , Yinpeng Dong , Qingni Shen , Shi Pu , Yuejian Fang , Hang Su

Safety alignment is an essential research topic for real-world AI applications. Despite the multifaceted nature of safety and trustworthiness in AI, current safety alignment methods often focus on a comprehensive notion of safety. By…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Thien Q. Tran , Akifumi Wachi , Rei Sato , Takumi Tanabe , Youhei Akimoto

With the rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models, ensuring their safety has become increasingly critical. Existing safety approaches can be categorized into training-time and inference-time methods. While inference-time methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ruiyang Zhang , Jiahao Luo , Xiaoru Feng , Qiufan Pang , Yaodong Yang , Juntao Dai

Text-to-image (T2I) systems enable rapid generation of high-fidelity imagery but are misaligned with how visual ideas develop. T2I systems generate outputs that make implicit visual decisions on behalf of the user, often introduce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zoe De Simone , Angie Boggust , Fredo Durand , Ashia Wilson , Arvind Satyanarayan

Text-guided image-to-video generation has made substantial progress, yet it still struggles to execute text-specified edits that require substantial changes to a reference image (\textit{e.g., object addition, removal, or modification}).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yexin Liu , Wen-Jie Shu , Zile Huang , Haoze Zheng , Yueze Wang , Jingjin Zhu , Manyuan Zhang , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang